LapLink MN-LGD011-XX-US manual Staying in touch with the office, Connecting to the office network

Staying in touch with the office

Whether you’re in a hotel on the road, at home on a Saturday, or with you laptop practically anywhere, LapLink Gold Corporate lets you use whatever connection you have to get access to everything you need. LapLink Gold Corporate supports connecting via modem, a network, a network server, the Internet and more. You determine how to connect by considering your office setup and what you want to accomplish when you are connected, and LapLink Gold helps you to get it done.

Connecting to the office requires that your home computer be able to connect to other computers, and LapLink Gold supports a variety of connection methods. It must also be running LapLink.

Depending on the type of office netwrok and its firewall pro- tection, you can then make any or all of these kinds of con- nections:

•To your office computer directly via modem.

•To your office computer through the office network VPN, via the internet.

•To your office computer through the Internet.

Connecting directly to your office computer

If your home computer is equipped with a modem or other internet connection, you can connect to the office computer directly.

Leave LapLink Gold running when you leave the office, and make sure you are connected , either by modem or other method. Then connect from home, and run programs and transfer files as you would normally.

If your office computer is attached to a network, you can read your e-mail and access the customary network resources, though you cannot connect to other computers on the network.

Connecting to the office network

If your office has a network, you can connect to the network via a VPN or other methods, and then to any computer run- ning LapLink Gold on the network, including your own.

Using the Remote Control service, you can access any net- work resources normally available to you from the office.

To connect to the office network, simply dial in to a dedi- cated network dial-up server using Dial-up Networking, use VPN or other connection methods.

Connecting over the Internet

You can also use LapLink Gold to connect to another LapLink Gold computer using a LapLink Everywhere con- nection. LapLink Everywhere is a subscription service, allowing you to connect in many ways. But your LapLink Everywhere account also serves as a connnection service between LapLink Gold computers. This type of connection gives you the full range of LapLink Gold features from any internet connection. To learn more about about LapLink Everywhere, go to See “Connecting Over the Internet Using Laplink Everywhere” on page 31.

Most workstations now have direct Internet access over dedicated, high-speed connections. If your office computer is one of these—and you have Internet access from your home computer or your laptop—you can connect to the office using Connect over Internet. If this connection

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